Sentence Fluency and Conventions An In-Depth Training Session For English Language Arts Teachers.

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Sentence Fluency and Conventions An In-Depth Training Session For English Language Arts Teachers

Participants will 1.Understand the key components of the traits of Sentence Fluency & Conventions 2.Recognize student performance at different score levels for Sentence Fluency and Conventions 3.Develop expertise in scoring student writing for classroom and Essential Skills purposes in Sentence Fluency and Conventions

Sentence Fluency

 Is the writing fairly easy to read aloud? (Supply punctuation wherever natural)  Enough variety of:  sentence structures?  sentence beginnings?  sentence lengths?

 Marking punctuation is scored under conventions. “Sense of sentence” shows when reading aloud.  Missing words can affect fluency  Inverted word order can affect fluency

Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Sentence Fluency

Conventions

Spelling Run-on sentences Fragments Comma splices Internal comma use End of sentence punctuation Capitalization Pronoun agreement Quotation marks Noun/verb agreement Point of view Apostrophes

Analyze:  Kinds of errors  Significance of errors (refer to grade-level expectations in Skill Level Guidelines)  Proportion of errors relative to overall text length and complexity

 Correct end-of-sentence punctuation? Run-on sentences (none or very few) Comma splices (none or very few) Fragments (none or just a few effective ones)  Correct spelling of common words? (grade level appropriate)  Correct capitalization?

 Correct usage?  10th: subject-verb agreement  10th: verb tense: correct? consistent?  10th: point of view (1 st, 2 nd, and 3 rd person) consistent?  If dialogue present, correctly punctuated & paragraphed?  Correct internal punctuation (commas, etc.)?

Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Conventions

 ODE High School Writing Samples: =527 =527  OPEN Scoring Site:  Clackamas ESD Writing Samples